When I came home yesterday afternoon, a neighbour came running up and she said "hurry, get your camera, there is a big owl just down by the creek", its been there for more than an hour". As I had never before seen an Owl so close to our house, I hurried and sure enough the Owl was still there perched on a horizontal branch right above the creek. The sky had gotten overcast by that time, but I was able to get a few dozen shots before several Crows came along to harass the Owl and chase it off. ( see http://www.pbase.com/image/147252548 for yesterday's posting of this visitor)